There Is No Justice, So We Must Protect Each Other

🛑 CONTENT WARNING:

This post addresses systemic injustice related to sexual violence, survivor trauma, and failure of legal systems to provide justice. It may be emotionally difficult for some readers.

Post 3: There Is No Justice, So We Must Protect Each Other

By Tina Winterlik // ZipolitaThere was no justice.

A woman was gang raped.
She cried during the assault.
She said, “You know you’re raping me, don’t you?”
She was filmed.
She complied with what they asked — afterward — to survive.
She stood up, told the truth, and testified.

And they still walked free.

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⚖️ The Courts Failed — Again

Let’s be honest:
Justice doesn’t live in those courtrooms.
It lives in us — in our decisions, our outrage, our protection of each other.

Because if the law won’t protect us, we must protect ourselves and each other.
And we must stop pretending this system was built to do anything else.

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🧱 What Does Protection Look Like in a World Without Justice?

• We talk to our kids about real consent, power, fear, and silence.
• We teach our sons that being a man means stepping in, speaking up, walking away from harm — even when it’s inconvenient.
• We trust our instincts when something feels wrong, and we act.
• We look out for our friends at parties, in schools, in locker rooms.
• We believe survivors — every time.

Because not believing is what got us here.

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🛡️ Community Is All We Have

This isn’t just about E.M.
This is about the thousands — maybe millions — of people who never told anyone.
Who got away, but never truly healed.
Who were believed by no one.

This is about you.
This is about your daughter, sister, cousin, teammate, best friend.
This is about the silence between trauma and truth — and who chooses to break it.

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📣 We Must Protect Each Other Because:

• The systems won’t.
• The courts don’t.
• The powerful lie.
• The institutions spin.
• The headlines fade.

But truth doesn’t go away.
And we are the ones who carry it forward.

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🔥 Final Words

They didn’t get convicted.
But they don’t get to be welcomed back.
They don’t get peace.
They don’t get to move on like nothing happened.

We protect each other now.
We say the names.
We speak the truth.
And we keep going.

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